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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Writing in the late 5th to early 6th century, this anonymous Christian theologian and Neoplatonic philosopher produced the Corpus Areopagiticum under a stolen identity: he claimed to be Dionysius the Areopagite, the Athenian whom Paul converted in Acts 17:34. The disguise held for centuries. His actual contribution was Mystical Theology and related works that fused Greek philosophy with Christian doctrine, establishing him as the founder of apophatic theology — the idea that God is best approached through negation, by naming what He is not. The pseudonym gave him a voice that echoed through medieval Europe long after the trick was exposed.